Travis, Angela, and little Travis HouseworthBorn in the Water at Rosemary Birthing Home
Valentine's Day 2009
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ABOUT BORN IN SARASOTA
Born in Sarasota is a collective of thoughts, articles, birth stories, events, and evidence in action supporting healthy, normal childbirth in our community. We are dedicated to promoting choices in mother-friendly maternity care practices and providers, informed consent for our pregnant families, and increased support of normal childbirth.
Do you have a birth story or birth photos to share? Please submit them here! Sharing your birth experiences will help empower others!
Do you have a birth story or birth photos to share? Please submit them here! Sharing your birth experiences will help empower others!
ABOUT THE EDITOR
My name is Laura. With the support of my family, I have birthed two healthy ten pound babies at home with Licensed Midwives in Sarasota, Florida. I serve on the Executive Board of Directors for the Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of Sarasota's pregnant women, infants, and small children. I am the Vice President on the Board of Directors for Florida Friends of Midwives, and have been a Florida Ambassador for The Birth Survey: The Transparency in Maternity Care Project. I am an endorser of The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative and support the Coalition for Improving Maternity Care Services. I am honored to be a the marketing director for Ina May Gaskin's Safe Motherhood Quilt Project, intended to raise awareness about American maternal mortality. I am also proud to be one of four co-hostesses in the collective known as Maternally Yours, Sarasota's Conversation about Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood, every Tuesday evening at 6:30pm on WSLR 96.5, Sarasota's Community Radio Station.
I believe that the current paradigm of maternity care in the United States must be shifted away from the medically invasive model and back to the embrace of birth as a natural, healthy process, one in which intervention should be used appropriately and with absolutely transparent informed consent. Without such a shift, our mothers and babies will continue to have unnecessarily poor outcomes, and we will lose our primal reverence for birth as a sacred event.
I believe that the current paradigm of maternity care in the United States must be shifted away from the medically invasive model and back to the embrace of birth as a natural, healthy process, one in which intervention should be used appropriately and with absolutely transparent informed consent. Without such a shift, our mothers and babies will continue to have unnecessarily poor outcomes, and we will lose our primal reverence for birth as a sacred event.
SARASOTA ELECTED OFFICIALS
- US President Barack Obama
- US Senator Marco Rubio
- US Senator Bill Nelson
- US Congressman Vern Buchanan
- FL Governor Rick Scott
- FL Senator Nancy Detert
- FL Representative Ray Pilon
- FL Representative Doug Holder
- FL Representative Ron Reagan
- FL Representative Kenneth Roberson
- FL Representative Darryl Rouson
- Mayor Suzanne Atwell
- Vice Mayor Terry Turner
- City Commissioner Paul Caragiulo
- City Commissioner Willie Shaw
- City Commissioner Shannon Snyder
- County Commissioner Carolyn Mason
- County Commissioner Joe Barbetta
- County Commissioner Christine Robinson
- County Commissioner Nora Patterson
- County Commissioner Jon Thaxton
- Sarasota Public Hospital Board
- Sarasota County School Board
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- The Doulas of Sarasota: FAQ's
- Thank You, Representative Keith Fitzgerald
- Response to Sarasota Herald Op-Ed Piece
- Congressional Briefing on CPM's Thursday
- BIRTH STORY: Third Time is a Charm
- The Safe Motherhood Quilt Project
- Sarasota C-Section Rates Must Come Down
- Honoring Sarasota's Practicing Midwives
- A Valentine's Day Waterbirth
- BIRTH STORY: A Tale of Two Midwives
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